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Nepal: Private sector's role key for well-managed urbanization

Nepal

By: Republica
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: My República

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: Experts have said that the private sector has a key role in ushering in well-managed urbanization in the country.

Urbanization in Indonesia: World Bank Supports Urban Planning

Indonesia

The World Bank estimates that by 2025 Indonesia will have 68 percent of its population living in cities or urban communities. As such, Indonesia’s cities are among the fastest growing cities in the world. However, without a unified spatial data system, urban planning is a daunting task while urbanization challenges become harder to predict. The World Bank's City Planning Labs project provides support for the development of a single spatial data infrastructure in the cities of Indonesia.

Infrastructure: Sri Lanka should rethink housing for urbanizing population

Sri Lanka

By: LBO
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Lanka Business Online

New Urban Agenda good on ‘what’ but not on ‘how’, critics warn

Global

By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Citiscope

Habitat III agenda must address human rights and the needs of rural people

Global

By: Shivani Chaudhry
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

In order to ensure that ‘no one is left behind,’ the Habitat III outcome document must be grounded in a human rights approach.

Indonesia has the Fastest Urbanization Growth in Asia

Indonesia

By: Leo Jegho
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Global Indonesian Voices

Pakistan taking necessary initiatives to get accurate knowledge of urbanization

Pakistan

By: Samaa Web Desk
Date: August 29th 2016
Source: Samaa

Habitat III stakeholders offer vision of broad partnership for sustainable urbanization

Global

By: Greg Scruggs
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: Citiscope

Sample of world cities shows risky lack of planning: UN experts

Global

By: Ellen Wulfhorst
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dangerously weak planning is leading to unchecked urban sprawl, leaving new city dwellers far from transportation and services, United Nations experts said.

Rwanda's regulatory environment in support of green urban development

Rwanda

By: Minnie Karanja
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: The New Times

India's urbanization likely to be 60% in 3 decades: Panagariya

India

Date: April 27th 2016
Source: Times of India

Gov't report: China's urbanization level reached 56.1%

China

By: Wu Guoxiu
Date: April 20th 2016
Source: CCTV.com

Blogs

Increasing Segregation? Impact of Covid19 in the Cities of Africa and South Asia

4 April 2020

Authors:

Dr. Philip Amis

Africa

Southern Asia

The current Covid 19 pandemic is likely to spread in the next few weeks and months to the South and in particular South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. The impact may well be of a greater scale than that currently experienced in the North; India was the region with the highest loss of live in the 1918-1919 Spanish flu Pandemic. The experience and historical experience suggests that urban areas will be disproportionately affected.

World Urban Forum 9: A promise or a responsibility?

13 February 2018

Authors:

Emilia Saiz

Ecuador

Malaysia

Global

Major global agreements, such as the Paris climate change agreement, and the SDGs will not come to fruition without local governments

Over a year ago in Quito, after a long negotiation and high involvement of all stakeholders, the atmosphere I could feel in my constituency was that of a promise; a big promise of a different international understanding of the urbanization phenomenon, a new role of cities and local and regional governments in the international governance and a shared vision of the need to rethink models.

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Events

World Urban Forum (WUF 2020)

8 February 2020 to 13 February 2020

Location

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

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AE

Global

The World Urban Forum (WUF) was established in 2001 by the United Nations to address one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: rapid urbanization and its impact on communities, cities, economies, climate change and policies. Convened by UN-Habitat, the Forum is a high level, open and inclusive platform for addressing the challenges of sustainable urbanization.

Organizers:

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

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Discussions

Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor

Closed

20 March 2019

Facilitators:

Narayana Gatty

India

Welcome and introduction from Narayana Gatty, Professor, Azim Premji University
Narayana:

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Organizations

Brazil Ministry of Cities

Federal ministry of Brazil concerned with cities and urban areas.

Centre for Liveable Cities Singapore (CLC)

The Centre distills key learning points from Singapore’s urban development journey since its independence in 1965, while creating knowledge to address emerging urban challenges. It shares this knowledge with local and international urban leaders, with the aim of positioning Singapore as a global hub for urban solutions. The Centre’s work spans four main areas:

Research

The Centre focuses on two key research questions:

Centro Gaspar Garcia de Direitos Humanos

O Centro Gaspar Garcia de Direitos Humanos é uma organização ecumênica, não governamental, sem fins lucrativos ou econômicos. Desde 1988 atua junto a pessoas de baixa renda que possuem seus direitos violados, conferindo a esta população o papel de protagonista social.

Centro Popular de Direitos Humanos (CPDH)

O Centro Popular de Direitos Humanos se constitui em um coletivo de Advogados Militantes Populares que tem como objetivo atuar na assessoria jurídica popular junto a movimentos sociais, comunidades e segmentos que sofram violações de direitos.

City District Government Peshawar

Peshawar (Pashto: پېښور‎

Environment and Urbanization

Environment and Urbanization (E&U) seeks to advance a more socially just and environmentally sustainable urban world through the provision of knowledge. Our focus is the global South, where an estimated one in three of the urban population live in informal settlements and where more than half work within the informal economy. UN projections suggest that almost all the world’s growth in population in the next few decades will be in urban centres in the Global South.

Fundación para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDAR)

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La Fundación para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Agrícola - FIDAR, es una organización no gubernamental, orientada a la búsqueda de alternativas para el desarrollo de comunidades urbanas y rurales en el sur occidente de la región andina de Colombia.

FIDAR cuenta con una estructura ágil, transparente y participativa para llevar a cabo todas sus actividades y el respaldo de un equipo multidisciplinario, apoyado por un grupo de asesores de universidades y centros de investigación de la región.

Geoffrey Payne and Associates (GPA)

Geoffrey Payne and Associates (GPA) was established in 1995 and has since undertaken consultancy, training and research assignments throughout the world. Clients include national governments, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), UN-HABITAT, SIDA, the World Bank, Cities Alliance and various NGOs and universities. A range of materials, from books, articles, media packs and documentary films have been produced and can be found under the publications link.

Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS)

The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) is a national education institution committed to the equitable, sustainable and efficient transformation of Indian settlements.

Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia

The Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia (IAUS) was founded in 1954 within the Faculty of Architecture. It was established as an independent scientific research organization by the Decision of the Republic Executive Council No.N/303 of May 13, 1961. The Institute’s scientific research and professional work is carried out within three organizational units as follows:

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

About IDMC

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) is the global leader in the provision of data and analysis on internal displacement. Since our establishment in 1998, we have been committed to offering a rigorous, transparent and independent service to the international community and to informing policy and operational decisions that can improve the lives of the millions of people living in internal displacement, or at risk of becoming displaced in the future.